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Filmed Feb 2008 * Posted Mar 2008 * TED2008 "Neuroscientist and inventor Christopher deCharms demonstrates a new way to use fMRI to show brain activity -- thoughts, emotions, pain -- while it is happening. In other words, you can actually see how you feel. Christopher deCharms is working on a way to use fMRI scans to show brain activity -- in real time."

From http://www.stanford.edu/~efs/693b/TED1.html : "1. length: 4:00 2. overall speed (WPM): 182 3. vocabulary profile: 3K-94.3%; 5K-96.4%; 10K-97.9%; OL-3.2% 4. accent: US standard 5. comments: there is a reference at the beginning of shrinking a ship and injecting it into the bloodstream, see: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060397/; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093260/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1. fMRI = functional magnetic resonance imaging--a way to view the brain in action. 6. Neuroscientist and inventor Christopher deCharms demonstrates a new way to use fMRI to show brain activity -- thoughts, emotions, pain -- while it is happening. In other words, you can actually see how you feel.

Filmed Feb 2008 * Posted Mar 2008 * TED2008 "Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions -- motion, speech, self-awareness -- shut down one by one. An astonishing story. Brain researcher Jill Bolte Taylor studied her own stroke as it happened -- and has become a powerful voice for brain recovery"

From http://www.stanford.edu/~efs/693b/TED1.html : "1. length: 18:02 2. overall speed (WPM): 150 3. vocabulary profile: 3K-92.9%; 5K-95.3%; 10K-97.9%; OL-1.6% 4. accent: US standard 5. comments: very emotional story; key vocabulary = schizophrenic; stroke (of the brain) 6. Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions -- motion, speech, self-awareness -- shut down one by one. An astonishing story."